Technical information

Symbol
NameHeavy teardrop-spoked asterisk
Unicode numberU+273D
CategoryAsterisk
DescriptionThe Unicode character ✽, or U+273D, is known as the "Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of an asterisk, but with teardrop-shaped spokes. The symbol is often used in typography to indicate footnotes or to draw attention to a particular part of the text. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity✽
HTML Entity (hex)✽
URL Escape Code%E2%9C%BD
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x9C 0xBD
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011100:10111101
UTF-160x273D
UTF-320x0000273D

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u273D"
CSS Code\273D
JavaScript"\u273D"
Perl\x{273D}
Python 2u"\u273D"
Python 3\u273D
Ruby\u{273D}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ✽ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#10045;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\273D";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References